I know much was changed; I just have been wanting to see original sources to explain why. I've been reading a lot today and learning quite a bit.
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Yes she has She was wickedly exploited as a child and young girl. May God give her peace and restoration. And hats off to Mel Gibson for helping her.
Thank you all for explaining the exorcised rite used to bless water and salt. Thank goodness we don’t need an exorcised priest for the blessing. I’m fortunate to have both Holy water and salt blessed by an exorcist priest.
I can think of a pretty obvious reason. Read about the history leading up to the council. The reason they did all these things was to try to bridge the gap to the separated brethren who do not believe in such superstitions as exorcising water for a sacramental or really the need for superstitions like sacramentals, or good works, or tradition for that matter. Much like inviting communists to the Vatican council and ensuring them that not a single criticism would be said about communism. Then, when Cardinals, Bishops, and nobility in the church finally pushed back they said smarmy things like wow, the smoke of satan has somehow magically entered the council. They decided to follow the cosmic Christ and that you should too. Today, Vatican officials are openly speaking about the wonderful virtues of the CCP being a noble model of governance. Something they never would have ever considered at the time and for good reason. But they certainly won't speak about the secret deal they made with the CCP. The whole point of these things has been to remove anything deemed offensive that stands in the way of ecumenicism and dialog. To remove anything offensive to any other religion (like Marxism) so we can all hold hands and sing I'd like to buy the world a Coke while placing idols on consecrated alters. If you refuse to hold hands and sing well then you too are offensive. I am sorry that I come across as uncharitable about this. Not to make excuses but I think it is somewhat par for the times we are in.
The FSSP and other old rite movements and societies still use the prayers of the 1962 (and older) missal for the sacramentals if it makes a difference. Some priests I have met also use these prayers but they don't advertise it.
I'm still reading up on all of it, but it seems the reasoning given was that there's a shift now from thinking the world was given over to the devil when sin entered the world and we need to exorcise things like water and salt to drive evil out and protect us...to the world was taken back from the devil when Christ died and rose and the Church needs to work with the world that is inherently good instead of constantly engaging in a battle with it. They said this new thinking is somehow a return to the true way of thinking in apostolic times and it was really the middle ages that messed everything up (where have we heard this before?). Blessings supposedly should be seen as praise and thanksgiving for the already good things God has given us, and holy water in particular is really just a reminder of our baptism and the new life we've been given. So it's not the water itself that changes or is blessed, it's us, when we use it. It's no wonder at all that the devil was able to get such a stronghold over the past decades. Our Church leaders decided to stop fighting him.
Yes, like many other Disney kids. I feel compassion for them, they are exploited by the system. Speaking of Disney kids, my daughter made me listen to Justin Bieber's album about Jesus which he did during lockdown last year. He was in bad shape but credits his wife's prayers for his conversion. Now we pray for him. While they are still in the limelight, Satan sure won't want to let these public figures go.
Catholic Answers says Britney Spears attended Catholic Mass. Catholic Answers | Facebook Just relaying this, I can't vouch for it. I'm fairly indifferent to her music but I hope whatever problems she has had, she can work out in the best Christ-like way.
An interesting interview by Tucker with Hungary's president. Boy, liberal heads are likely exploding over this one.
A very "progressive" friend on Thursday dissed Hungary for its alt right attitudes--mourning it because she loves Budapest. I said nothing. As usual.
I don't know how you manage it AED, I would never be able to keep my trap shut. What really gets me when it comes to all these Eastern European countries like Hungary and Poland is how can anyone in the west for one minute criticize them when they survived the worst horrors that leftist communists could possibly throw at humanity there. The Jewish Bolsheviks literally targeted these Christian nations for almost complete annihilation because they believed that Slavs could never be brought into the fold of communism successfully. They were 100% correct and they failed miserably in spite of their best efforts. Now here we are with a president who is publicly calling their leader a thug and tyrant for promoting a strong nation, Christian Democracy and declaring the family as one of the foundations of such. If Hungary was deemed irredeemable then how will nations such as ours be dealt with by these maniacs? Make no mistake, they are still with us and fighting harder than ever especially in the US to destroy everything that is good. Globalism is just another name for international communism.
Totally agree Don. I go back and forth between thinking I am a coward to keep silent and getting a sense that the Holy Spirit will give me the words if I am to speak. This person--very nice and very sincere--is a secular Jew very at home in Biden's America. I am something of an oddity. She likes me and feels we are in many ways soul mates--????--but for my medieval adherence to the one true faith. She is a very generous and kind individual so I patiently connect on points we can connect on and have Masses said for her and her husband. Sigh.
I know and am friendly with a similar person. We have almost totally opposite view on almost all political and religious ideas (she is an a atheist) however, she does devote a lot of time to charitable causes. Some of the causes I fundamentally disagree with (ex she works for a charitable clothing place....for the LGBTQ) however she has also opened her home to basically a total stranger and her children that were homeless. (!) I don’t know if I could be that giving. I feel she has a good heart even if at times it leans in the wrong direction. When she talks I try to keep my opinions to myself but she already knows how my belief on things. I like to think/ hope I provide a good witness to her and prayer for her often
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2...-scenes-hit-greece-as-athens-besieged-by-fire. These fires in Greece seem extraordinarily horrible, I really hope this catastrophe, what's remaining that is, can be averted
